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US in-house hire
Fully-loaded employment cost
- Base salaryMid · BLS OEWS May 2024 release
- $3,420
- Benefits & overhead+30% payroll tax, health, leave, equipment
- $1,026
- Recruiting fee$12,500 typical, spread over 12 months
- $1,042
Sourced pool
Hire-ready asks · across 69 profiles
- Typical salary askMid searches land near the median of hire-ready asks — CEFR-verified English B2+
- $1,000
- Search fee$299 flat, one time — shown over 12 months
- $25
- Hire fee$1,200 only if you hire — shown over 12 months
- $100
Middle 50% of hire-ready asks (p25–p75). The mark is where mid searches typically land.
Hiring this role through Sourced typically runs ~70–80% less than the fully-loaded US equivalent — $1,125 at the median ask (up to $1,625 at the top of the band) versus $5,488 per month. The US figure is a modeled employment cost; the Sourced figure is stated salary expectations plus our flat fees ($299 to start + $1,200 on hire).
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Role-level detail: p25/median/p75 asks, sample size, English distribution and the US comparison side by side. The numbers above stay on this page either way.
Where every number on this page comes from
Cite it, check it, argue with it. The two sides of the comparison measure different things, and we label which is which rather than blending them into one number.
- US base salary
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), national wages for the closest matching occupation, divided by 12. Where the delegatable work maps to an adjacent occupation, the junior/mid benchmarks use that occupation and senior the premium one (e.g. Admin Assistants → Executive Admin Assistants) — the ladder is named on every result. As of BLS OEWS May 2024 release.
- Benefits & overhead factor
- A flat
+30%on base, standing in for employer payroll taxes, health insurance, paid leave, equipment and software seats. Real loading varies by state and headcount — this is the conservative middle. - Typical recruiting cost
- A
$12,500midpoint of the $10–15K range an agency or contingency recruiter charges for these roles. Amortized over the first 12 months in the monthly view, a one-time line in the annual view. - Pool salary asks
- Salary expectations stated by vetted candidates in the Sourced pool during onboarding — mostly across Latin America. We publish the hire-ready basis a US client actually shortlists from: CEFR-verified English B2 or above, USD-denominated asks between $250 and $10,000/month (screens out currency and annual-entry errors). Median, p25 and p75 with the sample size (n) on every result. Refreshed monthly; figures here are July 2026.
- Seniority
- Moves both columns. The US side steps through the benchmark ladder. The pool side maps junior → 25th percentile, mid → median and senior → 75th percentile of the family’s hire-ready ask distribution. Why percentiles instead of experience-sliced medians: ~40% of asks sit on six round numbers, so sliced medians collide, and total years barely move asks in commodity roles — what does is international remote experience (support candidates with it ask a median $1,350 vs $800 without, Jul 2026), and those candidates live in the upper half of the distribution that the p75 mapping captures. Every number shown is a published percentile; nothing is scaled.
- The Sourced fees
$299flat starts the search;$1,200more only when you hire — ≈$1,500 all-in, and the comparison assumes a hire happens. Never a percentage of salary. Optional after hire: Contracting $99/mo per contractor, EOR $799/mo per employee.- What we do not claim
- These are not placed-wage figures and not an offer. A salary ask is where a candidate starts, not what they sign for. Nothing here accounts for your state’s payroll rules, your equity, bonuses, or the cost of the role staying open. Role families are broad buckets, so a specialist inside a bucket can sit well outside the band. And a $6K/mo US professional and a $1,500/mo remote hire are not always interchangeable — the comparison assumes the delegatable scope of the role, which is why junior/mid benchmarks use the adjacent occupation rather than the premium one.Not placed wagesNot a quotePre-negotiationRole-family level
Before you trust the number
Is this what I'd actually pay?
Close, but treat it as a planning range rather than a quote. The pool column is what candidates say they want before any conversation; a signed rate usually lands inside the p25–p75 band shown. The US column is a modeled cost, not a specific job offer. What is exact is our own pricing: $299 flat to start the search, plus $1,200 only when you hire.
What do the Sourced fees cover?
The whole recruiting job for one open role. $299 starts your pod — AI agents with a Sourced person in the loop that source from the pool, verify fit, contact candidates, screen them, and schedule your interviews. $1,200 is due only when you actually hire someone — about $1,500 all-in, and never a percentage of salary. After you hire, Contracting ($99/mo per contractor) and Employer of Record ($799/mo per employee) are optional add-ons.
Where does the salary data come from?
Candidates in the Sourced pool state a monthly USD expectation when they join. We publish the hire-ready basis — profiles with CEFR-verified English B2 or above — as a p25/median/p75 band per role family with the sample size attached, and your seniority selection maps to a point on that band (junior → p25, mid → median, senior → p75). The US side comes from BLS OEWS wages plus a flat 30% loading factor.
Isn't the savings number too good to be true?
It's large because the underlying wage gap is large, but we work to not overstate it: the US column is a fully-loaded modeled cost for the delegatable tier of the work (not the premium occupation), the pool column is real asks from candidates you could actually shortlist (verified English B2+), and the headline shows a range down to the top of the ask band. If a result still looks off for your case, the methodology above lists every assumption so you can rerun it your way.
How is English verified?
Every profile carries a CEFR level (A2 through C2) with evidence behind it, not a self-reported "fluent". Candidates complete a structured assessment, and the level sits on the profile next to the salary ask and the hours of EST overlap — so you know how a conversation will go before you book one.
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